[python-win32] A question about COM in general

[Eileen Wei]

Hi Tim and Roberto,

Thanks a lot for your reply. I somehow messed up with my account and didn't receive any email so I didn't see your replies until I checked the archive today, so sorry for the late reply.

I wonder if ctype can be used on C++ code as well? By searching on line the answer I found seems to be that it can't, but I don't know if those are the "right" answers. If ctype can be used on C++ then it seems like the most straightforward way to go, is that correct?

The applications I would like to test by exposing their APIs are not designed to be controlled programmatically, and even though some of them have very limited COM interface, most don't.  And I think I probably need to expose a function from here and a function from there depending on what I need to drive my test.

And I would like that there is a clear cut between the test code (the code added into the source code in order to expose the function to Python) and the product code, in another word, I would like my test code to be as least intrusive to the product code as possible.

So if ctype cannot be used on C++, then between COM, SWIG and PyCXX, which would be a better choice? Also Tim you mentioned learning curve of SWIG, I wonder how is that compared to COM?

Thanks,
Eileen


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